Two things can be simultaneously true from last night: The boys did great to find their mettle not once, but twice to bring this game level—and they shouldn’t have put themselves in both of those situations to begin with. As much as this was a point gained back from a losing position, it also felt like two points tossed away against a bottom-feeding Chicago Fire team. It’s clear that the Revs are battling injuries and that a fully firing squad is going to be a problem, but there’s also an issue with a lack of desire at the start of games from the team recently, and it burned us once again.
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New England at Philadelphia, Gameweek 14: Wait, I thought 2022 was last year
Erm, excuse me, what in the actual fuck??? I thought we were good this year!? OK so I think the Revs still are but this has NOT been a fun stretch of games lately. Knocked out of the U.S. Open Cup and licking the wounds from an unnecessary loss to Miami, a trip to Subaru Park to face the Union was JUST what we needed. Only, everything was going fine—until it wasn’t. A 3-0 loss and several injuries later, this was about as shitty a trip to Philadelphia as imaginable.
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A loss to Inter Miami was never going to be easy to stomach, but last night’s 2-1 defeat left a particularly sour taste in this writer’s mouth because so much of this game was out of the Revs’ control, and instead was left to odd, erratic twists of fate. Without even getting into the officiating and how VAR was implemented, a lot of this game can be summed up by saying Miami put one rocket, off-target shot into the box 7 minutes in, and it caromed off Dave Romney and into the net. In the second half, the Revs pinged two balls off of Dixon Arroyo (at least I think it was him both times) inside his own six and the ball ricocheted away from the net. Sometimes, them’s just the breaks.
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Depending on how you want to look at it, the Revs either earned a valuable point last night, let two valuable ones slip away, or emerged with a result worthy of the match—that’s the kind of night it was. Had a lot of similarities to the Columbus game—funny, considering it was another Ohio opponent. But with Atlanta dropping points after getting thumped by Nashville, New England remains on top of the conference for another week.
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My favorite bit of sports trivia: Who is the only American to have their name on two trophies in two different sports? Lamar Hunt! The return to action for the Revs in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup came Tuesday night against local “rival” Hartford Athletic—the first time these sides have met in an official match. It was far from pretty, but the Revs ended up on the right side of a 2-1 decision to advance against their USL opponents.
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When it comes time for the MLS Cup Playoffs, the only thing that’s going to matter for the New England Revolution is the number of points on the board. Saturday night, then, was a great night for adding points to the board. Forget for a minute that the second half nearly went down as the most forgettable of the season so far—when the final whistle blew, the Revs held a 2-1 decision in their hands against a Sporting Kansas City side that, albeit reeling, is still a club with great heritage. On a night with so much rotation, all that matters is the points
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